Author: Frank Schneider
Date: 00:06:13 12/25/01
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On December 24, 2001 at 23:27:37, Christophe Theron wrote: >On December 24, 2001 at 23:15:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On December 24, 2001 at 16:50:47, Thorsten Czub wrote: >> >>>i am sitting here, its christmas. and while it is a little boring, i am doing >>>some old positions on old hardware with all kind of software. >>>how is your todays software and hardware doing in a position from 1995 ???? >>> >> >>What program outputs this broken pgn? zero-zero is _not_ the way to >>indicate a castle move. :) > > > >Right. I came accross a number of ill-formed PGNs like these when I was writing >my PGN support, and I ended up adding "0-0" (zero-zero) and "0-0-0" >(zero-zero-zero) in my PGN parser! :) > >So I output the correct form, but I also accept the incorrect one when I read a >PGN. Yes, I had to do the same when I wrote .pgn-support for PocketGrandmaster (http://www.pocketgrandmaster.com). Even Fritz exports lines like [Event "timecontrol ... 10""] which is (afaik) not .pgn (quotes have to be preceded by a backslash in strings). Tricky stuff.... Frank > > > > Christophe
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